Random Acts is Channel 4’s short film strand dedicated to the arts. Founded in 2011, it set out to escape the conventions of arts broadcasting and showcase bold, innovative short-form work by artists and creative practitioners.
Short films can do what long explanations often can’t: land a feeling before we’ve had time to wriggle away from it.
We’ve pulled together a few that speak to queer lives, gay memory, bodies, shame, secrecy and finding ourselves in places that were not always built for us.
- David Hoyle on his first gay club | Divine David by Matt Lambert | Random Acts | 3 Jul 2017 | 3m 23s
- Navigating the world as a queer Black body | Day Dream by Stephen Isaac-Wilson | Random Acts | 7 Aug 2017 | 4m 24s
- Ian McKellen on coming out | The Castle by Joe Stephenson | Random Acts | 7 Apr 2017 | 3m 58s
- Two men fall in love on an estate | Crashing Waves by Emma Gilbertson | Random Acts | 24 Aug 2018 | 3m 12s
Kareem Reid on navigating the world as a queer black body | Random Acts | 7 Aug 2017 | 4m 24s
Ian McKellen on growing up gay and coming out | Random Acts | 7 Apr 2017 | 3m 58s
Two young men try and hide a secret from their community | Crashing Waves by Emma Gilbertson | Random Acts | 24 Aug 2018 | 3m 12s
Are there more we should add? Let us know.
